---
name: "Josann McGibbon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/josann-mcgibbon"
fi1m_id: "josann-mcgibbon"
imdb_id: "nm0569210"
tmdb_id: 41698
wikidata_id: "Q6279173"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T15:12:36.105154+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Josann McGibbon

## Identity

Josann McGibbon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/josann-mcgibbon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** josann-mcgibbon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0569210
- **TMDB ID:** 41698
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6279173
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josann_McGibbon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279173, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569210/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41698

Writer. Born 1 January 1940.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940
- **Active:** 2004–2015
- **Frequently works with:** [Sara Parriott](https://film.one/person/sara-parriott.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josann_McGibbon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279173, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569210/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41698

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Desperate Housewives*](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md) (78)

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## Biography

Josann McGibbon is an American screenwriter. She worked in partnership with Sara Parriott from 1986 to 2019, one of the longest-running writing teams in Hollywood.

Their credits include the feature films *Worth Winning* (1989), *The Favor* (1994), *Three Men and a Little Lady* (1990) and *Runaway Bride* (1999). They wrote episodes of *Desperate Housewives* in 2010–2011 and co-wrote and produced the miniseries *The Starter Wife* (2007), which received multiple Emmy nominations. McGibbon and Parriott created the *Descendants* franchise for Disney Channel, writing the first film (2015) and its sequels *Descendants 2* (2017) and *Descendants 3* (2019); they won a Writers Guild of America Award for the original *Descendants*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Desperate Housewives* (2004), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Descendants: Wicked Wonderland* (2026), Characters
- *Descendants: The Rise of Red* (2024), Characters
- *Choose Love* (2023), Executive Producer, Screenplay
- *Descendants: The Royal Wedding* (2021), Writer
- *Descendants 3* (2019), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Audrey's Royal Return: A Descendants Short Story* (2019), Writer
- *Descendants 2* (2017), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Descendants* (2015), Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Starter Wife* (2008), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Starter Wife* (2007), series, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Creator
- *Desperate Housewives* (2004), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/desperate-housewives.md)
- *Runaway Bride* (1999), Writer
- *The Favor* (1994), Writer, Co-Producer
- *3 Men and a Little Lady* (1990), Story
- *Worth Winning* (1989), Writer

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